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H. w. H-EATON.

(No Model) PARGEL CARRIER.

No. 585,474. Patented June 29, 1897" ATTORNEYS.

STATES PATENT FFQ.

PARCEL-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 58 5,474, dated June 29, 1897.

Application filed p mb r 16, 1896. Serial No. 605,986. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. HEATON, of Olneyville, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved Parcel-Carrier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved parcel-carrier more especially designed for use on bicycles and like machines and arranged for convenient folding, so as to occupy very little space when notin use.

The invention consists principally in a frame provided with a netting to form a hasket, and a clamp secured to the bicycle-frame and on which the carrier-frame is pivoted.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan View of the improvement with parts in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is an enlarged cross-section of the same on the line 4 4: of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlarged side elevation of a part of the frame, and Fig. 6 is an enlarged plan of part of the'frame.

The improved parcel-carrier is provided with a metallic frame A, made rectangular or square in shape and bearing a netting B, which forms a basket with the said frame when the latter is extended in a horizontal position, as indicated in Fig. 1.

The frame A is made in sections adapted to fold, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the frame being for this purpose provided with the side arms A A the first cross-arm A made in two parts connected with each other by a hinge A, and the rear cross-arms A and A connected with the side arms A and A respectively. The side arms A A are formed at their ends with downwardlyeXtending pivots A engaging eyes A in the outer ends of the crossarms A A and A to permit of folding the frame, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. Suitable stops A are also provided at the pivots and eyes to prevent the side arms A and A from swinging out too far when opening the frame from a Nuts A screw on the lower ends of the pivots A to hold the pivots in their eyes A The inner ends of the rear crossarms A and A rest in recesses formed in upturned flanges C, formed on a horizontal plate 0, provided with a lug 0 secured by a c1amping-screw D to the end E of the clip member E, on which is hinged at E the clip member E adapted to engage with the clip member E a part of the frame of the bicycle, as shown in the drawings. A clamping-screw engages the two clip members E and E to draw the same firmly onto the frame of the bicycle. The extreme inner ends of the cross-arms A A are formed with pivots A and carry nuts A to hold the pivots in place in the plate 0. Now by loosening the screw D the plate 0, with the frame A held therein, can beswung up or down to give a desired position to the basket 13. The arms A A can be lifted out of the recesses in the flanges C to permit of swinging the arms inward to fold up the frame A when the latter is not to be used.

The clip members E E have that portion next to the screw G made straight and divergent to engage smaller or larger parts of the bicycle-frame.

The netting B is preferably made of strands of knotted cord, so that when the frame is swung up and not in use the netting hangs down loosely in the frame without occupying much space.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A parcel-carrier having a clip, a plate having at its sides upwardly-extending and notched flanges and having a downwardlyprojecting lug pivoted to the clip on a horizontal axis, two cross-arms, the inner ends of which are pivoted to the plate and vertically extending outwardly over the flanges and being capable of entering the notches thereof to hold the cross-arms in position, side arms respectively pivoted to the ends of the crossarms, and an additional cross-arm pivoted to the outer ends of the side arms and jointed at an intermediate point, substantially as described.

2. In a parcel-carrier, the combination of a mounted plate with upwardly-extending side flanges each having a notch, two cross-arms folded position.

pivoted to the plate and respectively extending outwardly over the flanges and being oapable of entering the notches to hold the crossarms in position, side arms respectively pivoted to the ends of the cross-arms, and an intermediately-jointed cross-arm pivoted to the outer ends of the side arms, substantially as described.

3. In a parcel-carrier, the combination of a mounted plate with two oppositely-located and notched flanges, two cross-arms pivoted to the plate and respectively extending past the flanges and capable of entering the notches thereof to hold the cross-arms in position, and additional and folding arms pivoted to the cross-arms, substantially as described.

4. In a parcel-carrier, the combination of two clip members, one of which is pivoted to the other and the said other member extending beyond the companion member, a screw drawing the two members together, a plate with a lug pivoted to the extended portion of the said clip member, the plate having upwardly-extending flanges each with a notch, and two side arms pivoted to the plate and extending over the flanges and capable of entering the notches thereof, side arms pivoted to the cross-arms, and an additional cross-arm with an intermediate joint, said additional cross-arm being pivoted to the outer ends of the side arms, substantially as described.

HENRY W. I-IEATON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. CARROLL, CHRISTOPHER M. LEE. 

